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Using the PDFATTACH command

Using the PDFATTACH command - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the PDFATTACH command

- [Voiceover] So in the previous video, we looked at the pdf shx text command, to convert the text that we brought in with our imported pdf. So you can see that we're still in the importpdf.dwg file, and you can see that I've left the drawing in the same state as it was when we finished the previous video. So there's our text that we've converted to m-text, just sitting there on those dimensions. I'm going to zoom out slightly now, I'm going to select absolutely everything, like that, and yes, I'm going to go to the home tab and I'm going to erase everything, like that. And what we're going to look at now is the pdf attach command. So make sure that your current layer is pdf, and we're going to attach a pdf as what they call an underlay. A bit like attaching a drawing as a reference drawing, an x-ref. So if I want to attach a pdf, I simply type pdf attach, like so, and press enter. Now this will actually attach the pdf in exactly the same way as a reference drawing. So it takes me to…

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